DONALD EUGENE WEINMANN

1934-2022

Donald Eugene Weinmann, age 87, died peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family, on April 8, 2022.

Don was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois to Norman and Carolyn Braasch Weinmann on

September 2, 1934. He graduated from Bloom High School in Chicago Heights, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.

Don and his adored wife, Linda, spent almost 60 happy years together. They met in Tulsa in 1961, married in 1962 and were blessed by the birth of three daughters.

Don spent a happy and distinguished 40-year career with Chicago, Bridge & Iron Company (CBI). He was a natural salesman and leader and he moved quickly up the sales and executive ranks at CBI while he travelled the world. Don was very grateful that he could go to work every day doing something he loved with people he enjoyed working with! He retired as President of CBI Na-Con in 1997.

Don had many hobbies. He loved to hunt, fish, garden, play golf and tennis, and he was passionate about horse racing. He loved music and dancing, singing in the church choir and traveling with Linda and their friends. After retiring, Don took up photography and created many treasured cards and mementos for friends and family.

Don was a devoted and loving father and grandfather. He never missed an opportunity to attend ballgames or school events, or just spend time with his grandchildren and enjoy their hugs. Don never met a stranger. He loved talking to everyone he met, and he always had a story to tell.

Don was a thoroughly honest, generous, humble, caring and loving man. To really know him was to really love him. He will be greatly missed and his absence deeply felt by the many who knew and loved him.

Don was preceded in death by his parents and by his brothers, Norman and Gerald Weinmann.

He is survived by his wife, Linda, daughters — Melanie Walsh and her husband Bob, Beth

Weinmann, and Karen Masraff and her husband George; grandchildren — Jack, Joseph and

Charlie Walsh, Hannah, Elizabeth, and Georgia Masraff; his sister, Noralyn Sass, sister-in-law, Carolyn Bennett, and by a host of loving relatives and friends.

The family wishes to thank the hospice caregivers for their loving care.

A memorial service will be held at St. Philip Presbyterian Church, 4807 San Felipe Street, Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, May 17th at 2:00 pm. A reception, provided by the women of the church, will follow at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in support of Alzheimer’s research or pancreatic cancer research or to St. Philip Presbyterian Church.